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Date:      Tue, 27 Jul 1999 22:52:36 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        Nicolas Souchu <nsouch@teaser.fr>, Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, des@flood.ping.uio.no, obrien@NUXI.com, sobomax@altavista.net
Subject:   Re: PLIP is still broken :( 
Message-ID:  <199907280252.WAA06022@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <55351.933013838@critter.freebsd.dk>
References:  <19990726202441.57962@breizh.teaser.fr> <55351.933013838@critter.freebsd.dk>

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<<On Mon, 26 Jul 1999 20:30:38 +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> said:

> This is also something that should be changed since we are to modify
> things anyway, it introduces un-needed delays (and jitter) in the
> interrupt delivery.

Plus, the resource manager has built-in hooks to manage resources
which are time-shared by multiple devices.  (The thing it's lacking,
but ought to have, is a ``gang'' notion to claim several resources at
once.)

-GAWollman

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